July 28, 2017

When Janta Party formed the first ever Non Congress Govt. we were in St. Stephen's College , Delhi.

There were animated discussions as to the youngest MP elected - some youth leader named Lallu Prasad ( later spelt Lalu Prasad ) from Bihar .

During Emergency days ( 1975-77 ) Indira Gandhi Govt. had promulgated , for arbitrary arrests , Maintenance of Internal Security Act ( for short MISA ). As Lalu Prasad was in jail under MISA when his eldest daughter was born he named her Misa.

In 1977, Raj Narain became the Health Minister. Once , while on a Hospital inspection, he directed the Hospital authorities to remove the Signs " Emergency " from the Hospital as Raj Narain hated the word " Emergency ."

Before , Delhi University was set up in 1938, St. Stephen's College , Delhi was affiliated to Punjab University Lahore and before that to University of Calcutta. Punjab University was , also like the country partitioned in 1947. The Indian counterpart , now , in Chandigrah , initially functioned at Shimla ( with Registrar's office at Solan ). To distinguish the Indian Punjab University from its Lahore counterpart it is spelt PANJAB University.